Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley and this is episode 321 - Answer to ListenerThe intro music was Come Rest in This Bosom - said to be Edgar Poe’s favorite song.  I’d like to start with a whooper of an...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe  - Episode 320 -  DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part TwoWhen I started this podcast, my plans are to delve more into Charles Baudelaire, but I ran into something that I did not expect.  Oh su...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 319 - Intolerable LeadersThis should be episode 319 - Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Poe - Part Two.  But while I was looking through some past transcripts on my web site, I ran across one that ad...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - this is episode 318 - DeQuincy, Baudelaire, and Poe - Part OneRecently, I ran across a book about Charles Baudelaire called A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict.  There is no question about it - A...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 317 - Flowers of EvilToday I want to look at some of Baudelaire’s masterpiece - Les Fleurs du Mal - or The Flowers of Evil. First published in 1857, the poems were extremely controversial upon publi...